by AlzSWP | May 16, 2019 | Brain Matters, Tributes and Reflections
By: Bruce Wray – At the Alzheimer Society, we focus our communication outreach on a variety of key messages: de-stigmatizing dementia, awareness building and education of the condition and publicizing the availability of the programming and services designed to...
by AlzSWP | Mar 29, 2019 | Brain Matters
Dementia and the Impact of Volunteers By: Jen Hale, Manager of Volunteer and Social Recreation Services At the Alzheimer Society London & Middlesex (ASLM), there is a team of over 240 active volunteers who assist in virtually every aspect of the work of the...
by AlzSWP | Mar 5, 2019 | Brain Matters
Dementia and the Importance of Person-Centred Language By: Aaron Brown, Communications Specialist As a society, we are growing more socially conscious in order to help many formerly alienated groups feel included and accepted. Obviously, this is a good development...
by AlzSWP | Mar 5, 2019 | Brain Matters
Changing the Misconceptions of Dementia By: Bruce Wray, Communications Manager For London’s Ron Robert, the day he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s was the day he also lost his driver’s licence. His doctor offered minimal information or counselling to support the...
by AlzSWP | Mar 5, 2019 | Brain Matters
The Gift of Volunteering By: Jen Hale, Manager of Volunteer and Social Recreation Services In a study completed by the Conference Board of Canada, it was estimated that Canadians volunteered over 2 billion hours of service in 2017. If volunteering were an industry, it...
by AlzSWP | Nov 14, 2018 | Brain Matters
Dementia, Boomers and Education By: Bruce Wray, Communications Manager Every day it happens. Most times we don’t notice it but at some point, it hits us. We reach that point in life where we self-define as being “old”. Truth be told, those younger than us had put us...
